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- 5. made.
- 7. He developed the strategy of hiring families and dividing work into simple tasks, known as the Rhode Island system.
- 9. In the 1760s, the first breakthrough of the Industrial Revolution changed how ______________
- 11. ________________was a Supreme Court case about interstate trade.
- 13. Some challenges engineers and mechanics faced while building railroads was that railroads had to pass over ____________ and rivers.
- 14. The ___________________was a locomotive credited with bringing “railroad fever” to the United States.
- 16. Concerns about low wages, job competition, and working conditions led to the formation of these; the organization of workers with a specific skill or from a single factory who tried to improve pay and working conditions for members.
- 17. The invention of the plow and the reaper helped the farming industry by enabling farmers to plan and harvest huge crop fields.
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- 1. Alfred Lewis Vail developed a system known as ___________.
- 2. During the Industrial Revolution, the shift to ______________ meant factories no longer had to be built near streams, rivers, or waterfalls.
- 3. Francis Cabot Lowell developed mills featuring _______________ that could spin thread and weave cloth in the same mill.
- 4. The period of rapid growth in the speed and convenience of travel.
- 6. Samuel Morse’s invention, the ____________________, enabled people to send news quickly from coast to coast by sending pulses of current through a wire.
- 8. Mostly women worked in this system involving a 12-14 hour work day and living in boardinghouses.
- 10. Textile manufacturers kept the costs of running a mill low by hiring _________ and paying them very little.
- 12. Companies built their factories closer to __________ and transportation centers in the mid-1800s to provide themselves with access to workers.
- 15. In the 1870s, the demand for coal increased as the demand for steel grew because coal was used in __________ for steel production.